Canobie Coaster
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 8/25/2005 12:00:58 PM
What is your favorite standard production model coaster you've been on?
Mine has to be an Arrow Corkscrew+Loop Coaster.
What standard production model coaster do you want to ride most(haven't been on yet)?
Mine is a Batman the Ride coaster.
Message updated 8/25/2005 12:21:01 PM by Canobie Coaster
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BobFunland
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8/25/2005 12:16:13 PM
Batman The Ride.
Want to ride? Hmm.. I can't think of a production model that I haven't been on but want to ride. The closest I can think of is the Booster Bikes, but the two that are already built are different, so I dont know if its a true model.
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CoastrGlxy
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8/25/2005 3:19:57 PM
I don't really like std. production models, but if I had to pick a favorite it'd be Vekoma SLC's like the Mind Eraser. They're a little rough but have great speed and lots of leg choppers.
The one that I'd like to ride that I haven't would be Intamin's Twisted Impulse Coasters like the Steel Venoms and Wicked Twister at CP. They look like fun.
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Horizons12
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8/25/2005 10:20:32 PM
I like both Vekoma SLCs and Boomerangs.
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BobFunland
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8/26/2005 7:48:04 AM
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FTPC said:
B&M inverts are my favorites |
That's not a production model  Production models are coasters that are "off the shelf"
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Canobie Coaster
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8/26/2005 7:58:20 AM
Like Vekoma SLCs, Batman the Ride coasters, and Galaxi coasters. Those are standard production model.
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Canobie Coaster
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9/29/2005 6:31:44 AM
Mack wild mouses also are great standard production models.
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thinkdif
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9/29/2005 3:12:21 PM
batman is a great standard production model, my favorite coaster type is probably a great custom coasters woodie.
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skierman
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9/29/2005 3:14:19 PM
I really like Vekoma SLC's. Their alot of fun, and aren't as rough as people say.
I don't think there is one that I havent ridden and would like to.
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mrceagle
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9/29/2005 5:25:25 PM
BTR's are cloned but not exacly a production modle.
In my mind the City jet's and Galixys ae mine. I don't really care for the Vekoma Boomerangs and SLCs
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Canobie Coaster
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9/29/2005 5:50:48 PM
I don't really care for Boomerangs, but I haven't been on SLCs.
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BobFunland
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9/29/2005 6:26:13 PM
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mrceagle said:
BTR's are cloned but not exacly a production modle. |
If it was only Six Flags parks with them, I'd say you are right, but there are a handful at non-Six Flags parks, so I'd say its probably in the B&M Catalog.
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Timberman
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10/3/2005 4:37:55 PM
The Jet Star and Wildcat are both great designs and pack a lot of punch in a little area. The production model I'd most like to ride is the Traver Giant Cyclone Safety Coaster, but I was born a bit late for that.
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Canobie Coaster
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10/4/2005 6:10:44 AM
What was the Traver Giant Cyclone Safety Coaster?
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hrrytraver
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10/4/2005 8:56:29 AM
^harry traver sold three parks in the 1920s an "outrageously safe" and thrilling steel supported/wood tracked compact coaster design. it was at the forefront of coaster technology for it's day. however these rides, while probably "safe" in that there were MCBRs and 1920s versions of sensors on the track etc, they were also incredibly violent and claustrophobic and to the dismay of many of us anachronistic coaster buffs crying into coaster history books, very extreme and wicked to look at. try to imagine a GCII twister such as the hershey wildcat going on a crack binge and mating with one of the above mentioned swarzkopf mousey type coasters and you approximate what these coasters may have been like. the crystal beach cyclone being the most famous, but there were two others, one at revere beach in boston and the other in palisade, NJ. of these three, only the crystal beach cyclone lasted more than a few years. they scared the bejesus out of people and insurance companies lost sleep at night as long as these things were completing circuits. the CBC had to be constantly reworked because, inspite of it's sturdy steel frame, it tore itself apart due to it's absurd angles and curves and relentless speed.
http://www.coasterglobe.com/features/lostlegends-crystalbeachcyclone/cyclone4.jpg
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primogen18
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 10/4/2005 12:50:33 PM
Quote:
CoastrGlxy said:
I don't really like std. production models, but if I had to pick a favorite it'd be Vekoma SLC's like the Mind Eraser. They're a little rough but have great speed and lots of leg choppers.
The one that I'd like to ride that I haven't would be Intamin's Twisted Impulse Coasters like the Steel Venoms and Wicked Twister at CP. They look like fun. |
Just saying, Wicked Twister is in a class of its own being both spikes are twisted, making it a double-twisted impulse unlike the Steel Venom coasters which have only one twisted spike. My favorite production model is probly the SLC as well because I find them much less uncomfortable then people say and they are fast and fun. One id like to ride is a BTR.
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Canobie Coaster
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10/5/2005 7:44:44 PM
Is there a certain seat on the SLCs that is less rough than others?
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